Maybe she’d seen a television program about it.
When one of my children is sick, we go to the corner emergency clinic. If the people there said, “You need to go to a hospital emergency room,” I would go to the nearest one (15 minutes away) rather than 3-1/2 hours away to Duke, even though it’s reported to be the best in the region.
This seems to be a “no harm, no foul” situation, but it might have turned out badly. It doesn’t appear that her son had a rare condition that was difficult to diagnose or treat.
I would not drive 4 hours to take a child for whom I’d been told needs to go to the emergency room. Regardless of the quality, at that point stabilization, etc. would be on my mind - not the best in the world and 4 hours away. That stuff comes later.
I am very familiar with my local hospitals and have dealt with there incompetence. You better believe if you diagnose my kid with dehydration and I know it’s not right and tell me to go to certain hospitals it will be a cold day in hell before I go to certain ones.
The system eff’d up.
For hours is nothing...would sit in local er room waiting for conditions to worsen before guessing next step in that time.
Thank goodness for government and powerhungry inept nurses
So you’re saying it’s a go good thing she’s in jail and her child was taken from her? Do you really think the child is better off in foster care?